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Africa in the age of globalisation : perceptions, misperceptions and realities /

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Main Authors: Shizha, Edward (Author, Editor), Diallo, Lamine, 1958- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:International political economy of new regionalisms series.
Subjects:
Africa > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Economic development > Africa.
Economic development > Africa > International cooperation.
Women in development > Africa.
Education and globalization > Africa.
Globalization > Africa.
Economic development.
Economic development > International cooperation.
Economic history.
Education and globalization.
Globalization.
Women in development.
Africa.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
Geschlechterrolle.
Globalisierung.
Afrika.
2000 - 2099
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Africa in the age of globalisation / Edward Shizha and Lamine Diallo
  • Part 1. Social and institutional development. Globalisation and Africa: critical historical and deconstructive/reconstructive epistemic reflections / Ali A. Abdi
  • African development post-2015: sustainable agency or reversion to dependency? / Timothy M. Shaw
  • Democracy and governance in Africa: lessons from Senegal / Lamine Diallo
  • Globalisation, sovereign debt and adjustment programmes in Africa: implications for creditors, debtors and policy makers in Europe / Gloria T. Emeagwali
  • Part 2. Technology and global partnerships. The paradox of broadband access in Sub-Saharan Africa / Akbar M. Saeed and Oliver Masakure
  • Aspirations for Senegal: exploring international NGO partnerships / Kathryn Mossman
  • Globalisation, NGOs and multi-sectoral relations: Zimbabwean experience 1980-2012 / Gilbert Tarugarira
  • China-Japan rivalry in Africa / Bertha Z. Osei-Hwedei
  • Part 3. Gender, migration and settlement. Evidence based policy-making in the age of globalisation: measuring the impact of Chinese investments on women in Sub-Saharan Africa / Isioma Ile and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo
  • The cracks and the crevices: Rwandan women in the diaspora navigating gender regimes in Rwanda and Canada / Anna Ainsworth
  • Gender, contemporary realities, and the challenges of reconstructing identities in a transnational context / Phil Okeke-Ihejirika
  • Part 4. Education and globalisation in Africa. Demystifying the misperceptions and realities about the efficacy of monograde and multigrade pedagogies: Africa's response to globalisation in education / Charles Kivunja and Margaret Sims
  • Revitalising higher education in the age of globalisation: the African dilemma / Girmaw Abebe Akalu
  • Globalising education for globalised labour markets: brain drain or gain for Africa / Edward Shizha.